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diffr
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How to see word-diff and moved lines?
I use diffr since, it shows small changes in long lines nicely.
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Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
For visualization I really like kdiff3. Or on terminal https://github.com/mookid/diffr with specific settings that use 256 colors the highlights word differences as well.
But for manual merging I haven't found anything better than ediff. That's the only reason I install emacs on my work machines. Seemless integration into a text editor is just unbeatable.
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Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool
I wrote diffr [0] for that purpose; it serves me well, especially if your team makes code with long lines.
In my opinion, a simple approach that does NOT make any parsing is more efficient (what about bugs in your parser? code with syntax errors? also, how fast would the parser be?)
[0]: https://github.com/mookid/diffr
locust
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Effective Code Browsing
Nice!
Have been working on something similar, although my use case is more about learning how code has changed across git commits: https://github.com/bugout-dev/locust
For Javascript/Typescript/React support, like you, I hooked into the Babel toolchain. Can't recommend it highly enough.
There's also a newish project called quick-lint-js which seems to have written their own from-scratch AST parser for JS, but I haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/quick-lint/quick-lint-js
Finally, another project that I know in this space is comby (I believe it is owned/maintained by the folks at Sourcegraph): https://comby.dev/
Don't know why I dumped all those links there. Just figured there may be something useful in them for you. Am also just super passionate about building knowledge about code bases by analyzing their ASTs. Nice to meet a fellow enthusiast. :)
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What if Git worked with Programming Languages?
I maintain a free/open source project that does exactly what the author asks for: https://github.com/bugout-dev/locust.
Our tool uses git as the foundation of its functionality. It superimposes git diffs on top of ASTs.
It is insanely powerful.
For example, we use it to power semantic code search and current support Python, Javascript, and Java. We generate a JSON object defining the AST differences between initial and terminal commits on GitHub PRs and doing text search on the JSON objects performs surprisingly well when we want to answer questions like, "When did we add dateutils as a dependency?" or "When did we last change the /journals handler on the API?"
The Python integration currently sees the most use but if you are interested in other languages, we would be happy to support it.
Do drop me a DM if you want help getting started with Locust.
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Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
My team has a similar project (Locust: https://github.com/bugout-dev/locust) where the goal is to learn the semantic meanings of code changes in git commits, GitHub PRs, etc.
Since we took git diffs as a target for semantic analysis, we have a different approach to our diffs. We start with line-by-line diffs (specifically using "git diff") and then take a semantic diff by superimposing the git diff information on top of the initial and terminal ASTs.
This makes the diff calculation cheaper because we don't have to do full diff between trees.
Haven't updated the code in a few months, but my team is actively using Locust on public GitHub repos to learn the semantics of those code bases. We do plan to do some work on it soon to make it easier to make Locust easier to use (especially as a library).
Really need to sit down and take a proper look at tree-sitter. We currently support Locust diffs for Python, Javascript, and Java, but each one is custom written and implements the same basic algorithm. It looks like tree sitter might just crush this problem for us.
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What are some alternatives?
ydiff - View colored, incremental diff in workspace or from stdin with side by side and auto pager support
weggli - weggli is a fast and robust semantic search tool for C and C++ codebases. It is designed to help security researchers identify interesting functionality in large codebases.
gumtree - An awesome code differencing tool
difftastic - a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩
kdiff3 - KDiff3 updated for Windows
TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
meld - Meld
nbdime - Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks.
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs